RE: [tomato] Tomato Blight reply
margaret lauterbach (Tomato@GlobalGarden.com)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 06:13:51 -0700
At 03:54 PM 12/13/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Here is another reply I just received:
>
>>>It looks suspiciously like a virus, but could also be a nutritional
>problem,
>particularly micronutrients. If it is a virus, it is probably whitefly
>transmitted. If this is the case, there is nothing that can be done for the
>plants now. In the future, you would have to keep the plants free of
>whiteflies. Why not assume that it is nutritional, however-- this is
>something you can do something about now. Apply a foliar nutritional spray
>that includes iron, manganese, and zinc. Because these plants are
>indeterminate based on the photos, they are more prone to nutritional
>stress. Commercial growers are having a lot of trouble with a virus right
>now, called tomato yellow leaf curl. Good luck .>>
>
>Ken Pernezny
>
Do you have a printed source for your comment that indeterminate tomato
plants "are more prone to nutritional stress?" Thank you, Margaret L